This is a screenshot of my little fishies swimming in their new home. The landscape is generated using Perlin noise and playing out on the landscape is Conway’s Game of Life. Next plan is to a tile based infinite terrain and also to deform the terrain using various mathematical functions to create mountains and caves
Yo. Check out this beautiful playthrough of a pre-Amaze festival build of DEEP. I programmed the lovely fish behaviours in this demo with procedural flocking, scene avoidance and procedural animations.
These are some virtual fish made by myself and Darren Fitzpatrick as part of a game at a recent 12 hour GameCraft.
They were meant to be part of a music game, where you attract certain types of fish by playing appropriate musical notes. We didn’t get the game finished, but we did make these beautiful pulsing, flocking, singing fish, which look amazing in VR. If you have a DK2, you can download the binary and try them out for yourself.
Fish models & sounds by Darren Fitzpatrick
Fish AI & animation by Bryan Duggan
Im making procedurally generated fish for an upcoming VR game Deep with Owen Harris. Here is a work in progress video.
All the fish in the video are parameterised, procedurally drawn, and procedurally animated. Each fish is controlled by a number of of simple behaviours such as separation, cohesion, alignment, wander, flee and follow. When the behaviours are combined, a complex system emerges and the fish will flock together. In the system, some of the fish are also programmed to respond to fish of a different type and to the camera. Code on my git:
My Game Engines student assignments for 2014. The assignment was to create an articulated animat or robot simulation that walks, crawls, flies, rolls or drags itself around under its own power. These are all coded in C++ using BGE and the Bullet Physics Engine.
This is a playthrough of a game I made at the recent Dublin GameCraft held in Microsoft in December 2014:
I wanted to make Lunar Lander with Perlin noise, so I shoe-horned the theme into the game a bit by saying you are rescuing boxes of kitties. I’ve since removed all references to cats and basically finished and polished the game so thats it’s a complete experience. Its topped off now with an awesome soundtrack by Kevin Doyle that adds tension to the experience. Everything in the game is 100% procedurally drawn. No sprites.
I find the play experience to be surprisingly varied with several different complex scenarios emerging from the simple mechanics:
Play it through yourself and see what I mean. It only takes around 10 minutes to complete, or watch the video and see.
You can play the game with keyboard using the arrow keys, an XBox controller or for an added challenge by holding your hand over a Leap Motion. Press down to thrust and roll your hand to rotate.
Source code on my git:
Im looking forward to showing off the 4 player version of YASC at DubLudo this week. Code in the xbox branch of my repo. It looks awesome on the big screen!
As part of an ongoing drive to make more games as part of the courses I teach, I present YASC. YASC is an implementation of the classic SpaceWar game first programmed by Steve Russell at MIT in 1961. In my version, there are two player controlled spaceships. The left (red) player uses the WAD keys to maneuver, S to shoot and E to activate the hyperdrive. The right (green) player uses IJL to move, K to shoot and O to hyperdrive. Each player starts with 5 lives and the winner is the player who is still alive at the end of the game. Gravity affects the ships and the lazers. Fun to play and even more fun to make in Processing!
Hey I am hosting all my courses on github this year. Check them out!
Everything you need to know about git & github in one video:
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